The Lochsa drainage as seen from Indian Post Office Lookout on a smokey day. Bud used to run his traps (trapline) right over the top of this ridge. This collection of photographs was taken by Bob Tribble, Public Information Officer for the Clearwater National Forest and mailed to participants in the Lolo Trail Inventory project in 1994. Bud recalled that he was asked to go along on these trips (hikes, and horseback, for three different summers) to help look for things such as his old trapper cabins. They actually didn't find most of the cabin sites, but from the photos, it appears they located plenty of artifacts. One man on the trip was a writer from a university in the Midwest who has done much research on the Lolo Trail. Archaeologist Steve Armstrong, Clearwater National Forest, Orofino, headed up the project. Bud remembered that on one of the trips, an Indian woman, Nez Perce, (possibly Diane Malikin?) participated along with her granddaughter. Bud really enjoyed making that connection. One day during the project, the group was forced to head for cover in the brush near the meadows past Beaver Ridge. When they came back up out of the brush they discovered a fire. The group got there just in time to keep it from blowing up.